A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.